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Quotes About Event

Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.
~ William Golding
EVENT + REACTION = OUTCOME Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.
~ Chip Conley
To be surprising, an event's can't be predictable. Surprise is the opposite of predictability. But, to be satisfying, surprise must be "post-dictable.
~ Chip Heath
You know, Bo, there is a feeling, in that instant following some life-changing tragedy, that you can actually step back over that sliver of time and stop the horror from coming. But that feeling is a lie, because in the tiniest microminisecond after any event occurs, it is as safe in history as Julius Caesar. Data in the universal computer is backed up as it happens.
~ Chris Crutcher
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on this grand and auspicious day.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Let's all go to the lobby; let's all go to the lobby; let's all go to the lobby to watch you guys compete!
~ Chris Grabenstein
he sacked Rome in 410, an event which shocked the Roman world much as 11 September 2001 shocked the United States, a huge, upsetting, symbolic blow to its self-confidence; but it was without other repercussions,
~ Chris Wickham
This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that it has ever truly occurred. Ever! And yet we have just witnessed not just one instance, but two. Two! And both happening at the exact moment when we were in the middle of...
~ Christa Faust
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
~ Christina Aguilera
Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this is the singular of the word whose plural is dice. Two dice, one die. Like two mice, one mie.)(Well, two mice, one mouse. Like two hice, one house. Peculiar language, English.)
~ Christopher Dougherty
My boyfriend had a bicentennial.
~ Christopher Golden
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
~ Heinz R. Pagels
It's only really appropriate in the event of a life-threatening emergency, "I love you." It means a different thing to us than it means to them. God knows what it means to them. God knows what it means to us.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
So it has come at last—the Distinguished Thing.
~ Henry James
On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The atomists knew that causation must start from something, and that no cause can be assigned to this original something. Motion was simply a given. The atomists asked mechanistic questions and gave mechanistic answers. When they asked "Why?" they meant: what was the cause of an event? When their successors—Plato, Aristotle, and so on—asked "Why?" they were searching for the purpose of an event.
~ Leon M. Lederman
An event is not in the person.
~ Leslie Scalapino
And how about Jennifer Lopez in that dress at the Golden Globes? The referees ruled it incomplete.
~ letterman david
It frequently breakfasts at five-o'clock tea,And dines on the following day.
~ Lewis Carroll
SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
~ Margaret Chan